Eco Schools

At New Fosseway our "Eco-Schools" project is continuing to yield good results and also to move into new areas.

Our recycling has developed into a very effecient and reliable system, with several of our KS4 and KS5 students playing vital roles. As every class continues to recycle from their own class black boxes, which are collected by Matt and Billy and transportyed to our "mini-recylcing centre" which we have set up in partenership with the Waste Team at Bristol City Council. We have even had our first few collections from the city-wide collections team! Jed and Guy are also responsible for emptying ALL of our waste paper bins, transporting them across campus to the BLC's paper and cardboard recycling facilities on a weekly basis. They have become very adept at their jobs, and are even beginning to stand up for their "workers rights" as they seek new and improved recylcing bins to replace those that are currently in service. Watch out all waste contractors out there!

Our recycling facilities have also embedded themselves firmly in curriculum areas, where "safe" recycling resources have been used in whole KS2 mixed PSHE sessions. We have been identifying, sorting, and tarnsporting recyclable and non-recyclable waste, as well as exploring all the resources we have on hand to help us with this. The future of the "Eco-Schools" workforce is in safe hands!

In new developments, our "Eco-Schools" project has moved into the element of "Global Perspective". We have begun to make an international link with Jadidia School on Pemba Island in Zanzibar, East Africa. Our Governor Les Fry has led assemblies to all Key Stages outlining the work he undertook at Jadida recently and how eager the students there are to learn about us. Unsurprisingly, New Fosseway students are just as keen to make friends-especially with the thought of our letters and mail getting to travel by airplane!! See our International Schools link for more information or how you can join us in our International partnerships.

With all the busy work that is going on, New Fosseway are getting ever closer to our goal of achieving "Eco-Schools Silver Status"-watch this space!